HearBuilder® Following Directions Fun Sheets contains hands-on color, cut, and paste activities for students to practice following oral directions with basic concepts. This 210-page reproducible workbook includes five sections: Basic directions (Cover the guitar.) Sequential directions (First color the dog, then color the jump rope.) Quantitative and spatial directions (Cover the third car.) Temporal directions (Put a train in the box before you put a horse in the box.) Conditional directions (If a plane and a doll are in a box, put the box in the toy store.) These worksheets are companion activities to reinforce the tasks in the HearBuilder® Following Directions interactive software program. The sections in the workbook directly correspond to the five activities in the HearBuilder® Following Directions software. The hands-on activities in this book encourage students to transfer the skills learned on the computer to tasks completed with an adult. Each section contains 20 lessons¿two lessons for each objective. The first lesson for each objective uses pictures and vocabulary taken from the HearBuilder® Following Directions software. The second lesson for each objective addresses the same skills using general preschool to third-grade vocabulary. The activities in this book include the following basic concepts: Colors ¿ red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, brown, white Quantities ¿ one, two, all, both, either, except, or, and, don¿t, not Sequences ¿ first, second, third, then, next, last, finally, fourth, fifth Shapes ¿ circle, square, triangle, star Size ¿ large, small, long, short Time ¿ before, after Spatial Relationships and Positions ¿ first, second, third, last, between, beside, next to, above, below, inside, in front of, on, in, behind Each lesson includes a list of materials needed, the lesson objective, teacher directions, and specific instructions.

An interactive reinforcement tool for helping students meet behavioral or academic goals. Students mark goal levels (5-10-15-20-25-30) using the colored rings and insert tokens as reinforcement for appropriate behavior or correct responses.

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled reading, and comprehension. The authors draw upon experimental, neuropsychological and developmental evidence in a wide-ranging evaluation of the contribution of two components of working memory to each aspect of language. The two components are the phonological loop, which is specialised for the processing and maintenance of verbal material, and the general-purpose processing system of the central executive. A full introduction to the application of the working memory model to normal adults, neuropsychological patients and children is provided in the two opening chapters. Non-experts within this area will find these chapters particularly useful in providing a clear statement of the current theoretical and empirical status of the working memory model. Each of the following chapters examines the involvement of working memory in one specialised aspect of language processing, in each case integrating the available experimental, neuropsychological and developmental evidence. The book will therefore be of direct relevance to researchers interested in both language processing and memory. Working Memory and Language is unique in that it draws together findings from normal adults, brain-damaged patients, and children. For each of these populations, working memory involvement in language processing ranging from the speech production to comprehension are evaluated. Working Memory and Language provides a comprehensive analysis of just what roles working memory does play in the processing of language.

"The most common words for teaching reading, writing, and spelling."--Page 4 of cover.

A one-of-a-kind resource for evaluators using the Woodcock-Johnson® III The Woodcock-Johnson® III is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing both cognitive abilities and achievement in children and adolescents. Woodcock-Johnson® III: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies is the only reference to provide valuable guidelines for preparing useful recommendations and writing effective, descriptive psychological and educational reports based on WJ III® scores, tasks analysis, and error patterns. Featuring the most up-to-date information available on the WJ III®, this essential resource offers an overview of the WJ III® scores and interpretive information, along with a review of the clusters, and tests. Numerous examples of diagnostic reports that depict a variety of common student learning problems are included, illustrating applications of the WJ III® in both educational and clinical settings. Drs. Nancy Mather and Lynne Jaffe also provide a wide variety of educational recommendations, along with summaries of proven methods and techniques for implementing successful examiner recommendations, which can easily be attached to a report. WJ III® examiners will find this volume invaluable in preparing psychoeducational reports about children's abilities, and teachers and educational therapists will find it helpful in converting recommendations into measurable goals and objectives for monitoring students' progress.